# Governance Alerts

A useful tool for validators and chains alike, validators can set a channel to receive new proposal alerts for all of the chains they validate whereas projects can add alerts for their community for new proposals for their chain only.

| Command                                                                                        | Description                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/gov-alerts`                                                                                  | Will provide you with a select menu to choose which chains you wish to receive proposal updates for. You can select all or just one. You can edit at any time by running the command again. |
| <p><code>/gov-alerts-role \[role]</code><br><em>Example: /gov-alerts-role @governance</em></p> | Choose a role for the bot to mention when new governance alerts come in, the default setting is no mentions.                                                                                |

<figure><img src="/files/WEOFyXcwW3li9pTHK99j" alt=""><figcaption><p>Example of multiple governance alerts set to one channel.</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/b6UhN0o1KuKMlVMxDyQ5" alt=""><figcaption><p>Selecting the proposal alerts we want in our server.</p></figcaption></figure>


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